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The Molecular and Cardiovascular Physiology Lab is looking at how heart disease risk changes during the menopausal transition.
Women who have recently begun the menopausal transition, have not had period for 60 days or more but less than one year or have not had a period for more than 5 years, are...

David Mednicoff, assistant professor of public policy and director of Middle Eastern studies, visited the largest refugee camp in Jordan on June 6 as part of a delegation affiliated with iPlatform for Global Change, an organization he helps lead. As a result of this visit, this international...

Jake Cunningham, interim chief information security officer at Information Technology, will present a TechTalk on “Spotting Social Engineering Scams” on Monday, June 29 from 1-2 p.m. in S220 Integrative Learning Center.
Social engineering is a common type of online scam targeting...

Charles Moran III, 78, of Amherst, professor emeritus of English, died at home June 21 from the effects of acute myeloid leukemia.
Born in New York City, he was raised there and in Rye, N.Y. After graduating from St. George’s School in Newport, R.I. in 1954, and from Princeton...

Today the leaders of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), Baystate Health and the University of Massachusetts Amherst announced plans to open a regional clinical campus of the medical school in Springfield, to be known as UMMS-Baystate Health.

Linguistics professor Tom Roeper, in collaboration with professor Bart Hollebrandse from the University of Groningen, has received a grant of $29,681 from the National Science Foundation to develop an exhibit on recursion in language.
Recursion is the process of “putting something inside...

The creation of the UMass Medical School’s new partnership with Baystate Health will serve as an important complement to ongoing, community-based health initiatives programs by the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Springfield area.